Events from the year 1822 in Germany
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) Kingdom of Hanover George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830) Kingdom of Württemberg William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830) Grand Duke of Hesse Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe George William (13 February 1787 - 1860) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835) Principality of Lippe Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836) Waldeck and Pyrmont George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871) Duke of Brunswick Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)
Events "Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration. The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, established from 1822 to 1946. Röchling SE & Co. KG, a plastics engineering company headquartered in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany is established. Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co., a media publishing house based in Stuttgart, Germany, founded. Sternburg-Export was first brewed by Maximilian Freiherr Speck von Sternburg
Births 2 January – Rudolf Clausius, German physicist (d. 1888) 6 January-Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist (d. 1890) 18 April – August Heinrich Petermann, German cartographer (died 1878) 27 August – Theodor Martens, German painter (died 1884)
Deaths 14 January – Franz Kobell, German painter, etcher and draftsman (born 1749) 22 January – Rudolph Schadow, German sculptor (born 1786) 16 January – Elisabeth Berenberg, German banker (b. 1749) 23 February – Johann Matthäus Bechstein, German naturalist (born 1757) 3 April – Friedrich Justin Bertuch, German patron of the arts (born 1747) 27 May – Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (b. 1772) 25 June – E. T. A. Hoffmann, German Romantic writer (born 1776) 25 August – William Herschel, German-born British astronomer (b. 1738) 26 November – Karl August von Hardenberg, Prussian politician (b. 1750) 8 December – Saul Ascher, German political writer and translator (born 1767) 28 December – Albert Christoph Dies, German painter and composer (born 1755)
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